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FACILITATORS AND CONTRIBUTORS: UUBO

OZOFU ’LATUNDE OGIEMUDIA
PARTNER, UDO UDOMA & BELO-OSAGIE
Ozofu is a partner in Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie, where she is part of the firm’s Corporate
Advisory, Private Equity, and Mergers & Acquisitions teams. She is recognised as an extremely
resourceful and versatile adviser and has advised on various areas of the law including, corporate
and commercial law, private equity, corporate restructuring and mergers and acquisitions,
regulatory compliance, labour and employment, company secretarial practice. She also co-heads
the firm’s pro bono practice.
She advised on various equity investments, usually leading the teams that carry out legal due
diligence reviews in connection with various investments and divestments. She was part of the
teams that advised clients such as Kellogg, Verod Capital, OCP Africa, Synergy Capital, Carlyle
and Actis on various investments in Nigeria.
Ozofu is a Vice-Chairperson of the Nigerian Bar Association-Section on Business Law Committee
on Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings. She was recognised in 2020 by the
International Financial Law Review (IFLR) as one of the IFLR1000 Women Leaders in Nigeria. She
is rated as a ‘highly-regarded lawyer’ for her Mergers & Acquisitions, and Private Equity practice,
by The IFLR1000 2020.

CHRISTINE SIJUWADE
PARTNER, UDO UDOMA & BELO-OSAGIE
Christine is a Partner in the firm's Private Equity, M&A and Corporate Advisory teams. She advises local and
international private equity funds and fund managers throughout the life cycle of such funds – from fund
formation to structuring, documenting and executing investments/ acquisitions and co-investments, through to
exits. She has advised on investments in a variety of sectors financial services, healthcare, telecommunications,
FinTech, and FMCG, amongst others. She has also advised on international lending transactions including
syndicated loans.
Christine has been involved in a diverse range of financial and capital markets transactions including private
placements and, as part of her Asset Management and Collective Investment practice, the establishment and
registration of mutual funds. She also advises on issues relating to the Nigerian bond market.
As part of her corporate advisory practice, Christine routinely leads due diligence reviews, in the course of
which she assesses the viability of targeted businesses for merger, investment and financing transactions.
Christine contributes to several publications on private equity. She has co-authored the Nigerian chapter of four
editions of the Asset Management Review published by Law Business Research and is also a contributor to the
International Comparative Legal Guide on Private Equity in Nigeria. Christine also regularly contributes to the
credit and security section of the World Bank's Annual 'Doing Business in Nigeria' surveys. Christine is a member
of the Advisory Board of the Legal Business Unit of BusinessDay.

ADEOLA SUNMOLA
PARTNER, UDO UDOMA & BELO-OSAGIE
Adeola is a Partner in Udo Udoma and Belo-Osagie's banking and finance; power, projects and infrastructure,
and compliance and investigations teams. Her specialisations include syndicated lending; debt restructuring;
financing for power; manufacturing, real estate, energy, and infrastructure projects; Islamic finance, as well as
anti-corruption compliance and corporate investigations in Nigeria.
She routinely advises local and international clients in connection with transactions involving various sectors
of the Nigerian economy, including transactions which have “cross-border" elements. She has advised various
lending syndicates in connection with projects in Nigeria, including those relating to oil and gas assets, gas-
fired power plants, steel mills and a greenfield cement plant.
Adeola leads the team that is advising the sub concessionaire in connection with the development, operation
and maintenance of the container terminal and related infrastructure of the Lekki Deep Sea Port Project and
advised an international energy and commodity trading group on a US$530 million loan to a Nigerian oil and
gas exploration and production company. Other transaction highlights include: advising an energy and
infrastructure conglomerate with operations in Africa and Middle East on the phased project development of
a greenfield 500MW Independent Power Project in an East African country; advising a project developer on
its acquisition of a stake in a 500MW gas fired independent power plant in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria and
advising a project developer in the renewable energy sector on the development and financing of distributed
solar power solutions to clients in the financial services sector.
Adeola is ranked as a 'Highly Regarded' Lawyer by IFLR1000, in its 2020 rankings, for her work in the
following practice areas: Banking and finance; Project development and Project finance.

She is happily married and blessed with two sons.

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